Allard, Dr. Louis W.

“In the 1920s, the United States Health Bureau recognized Allard, then the chief orthopedic surgeon in Billings, as one of the country’s leading public health officials for his work at St. Vincent Hospital.” Great Falls Tribune, 125 Montana Newsmakers, 2011. “Honor Comes to Local Man in Recognition of Unswerving Service to Humanity. … his work as
chief surgeon of St. Vincent's Orthopedic Hospital-School.” Billings Gazette, Dr. Allard to Receive Papal Decoration, December 13, 1931, front page. Polio-stricken children treated by Dr. Allard. Ernest Hemingway treated by Allard. Biography in The Call to Care, by Sue Hart. See Laurel's Story: A Montana Heritage (1979) by Elsie Johnson.

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